Clinton News-Record, 1984-03-28, Page 28Ontario Foundation
is -pioneer in use of cobalt
Toronto. — The Ontario Cancer Treatment
and Research Foundation is celebrating its
41st anniversary this year.
The foundation administers cancer
treatment and research in the province
through its regional treatment centres and
promotes the education of cancer
specialists. The foundation is also a world
pioneer in the fuse of cobalt -radiotherapy in
the treatment of cancer as well as the
developer of cancer clinics which combine
research, treatment, diagnosis and training
in one unit.
The foundation was formed by an Act of
the Ontario Legislature in 1943 to form the
province's rudimentary cancer clinics and
hospital cancer wards into a network of
highly specialized clinics.
In 1946, it organized a public fund raising
drive which collected nearly, a million
dollars for use in the establishment of a pilot
cancer clinic in Kingston.
From that clinic, which was a model in
experimental medical organization of such
a unit, other clinics were formed in
Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Windsor and, in
------1960,--Toronto.—w-iththe.__.bui1_ding._° .._the._
Toronto-Hayview Clinic at the Sunnybrook
Medical Centre.
Also formed under the foundation's wing
was the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto,
a major research and treatment centre, and
its associated hospital, the Princess
Margaret Hospital on Jarvis Street in
Toronto.
The foundation's London Clinic was the
first centre in the world to obtain a
commercial -Cob lit-60-Beam—Therapy.Unit,-._
the basic workhorse of cancer radiotherapy,
and the first patient in the world to receive
radiotherapy with this unit was treated in
the London clinic.
The foundation has funded a number of
research projects over its 40 year history
which have become landmarks in cancer
research. Those research projects include
the development of tissue culture later used
by Dr. Jonas Salk in the development of his
polio vaccine; work that led to the
establishment of chemotherapy as a method
of cancer treatment, work to manage
Hodgkins Disease, one of the forms of
cancer now thought to be curable and
research using the Canadian -invented
electron microscope.
_Foundation __cllvi and_. the Princess
Margaret Hospital now treat about 15,000
new cancer patients a year.
Terry Fox funds...
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3) SPECIAL CANCER RESEARCH
FUND—The Special Cancer Research Fund
grants will aid Canadian medical schools by
providing up to a total .of.$150,000 each over
three -years. The grants are designed to
meet the needs o f each medical school and
caay be used for the acquisition of research
•'equipment, updating of facilities, and the
development of new programs of cancer
study.
4) AWARDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH
SCIENTISTS—Under the Terry Fox Cancer
Research Scientist award program,
commitments have been made to pay the
salaries of two scientists for a period of up to
five years. These. awards were designed to
facilitate the efforts of top-flight cancer
research scientists by allowing them to
devote themselves full time to cancer
research.
5) INCENTIVE FOR MEDICAL
STUDENTS -=The Cancer Research
Clerkship Award was developed with the
objective of exposing first year medical and
dental students to research programs
through summer employment.
6) SHARED KNOWLEDGE—Four awards
have been made under the Terry Fox
Cancer Research Exchange Program which
was designed to allow top cancer
investigators, receiving grant support from
the National Cancer Institute of Canada, to
travel tocaiicerr-research -centres abroad -to
-study new techniques developed by the
world's leading scientists.
Finally, the National Breast Screening
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Study • conducted by the Institute's,
epidemiology unit ^at the University of
Toronto has been aided by a $3 million grant
from the Marathon of Hope Research
Program.
• An additional' $7.6 , million has been
allocated .for _.. programs— -already—being--
funded
already--being--_funded by the National Cancer Institute, all
of which have met the criteriaof excellence
and innovation to be eligible ,for a
"Marathon of Hope" grant. •
Anne Sanderson (left), Vice -President for the Southwestern District of the Canadian Cancer
Society, admires Wendy Tremeer's handiwork. Wendy, who is secretary for the Huron Unit,
made this table cloth and donatedthe wool for an afghan which was made by her aunt
Marion McLean. Both will be raffled off to raise money for a loan cupboard. The cupboard
will contain supplies for cancer out-patients in the county. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
Raffle to be held to raise
money for loan cupboard
The Huron County Unit of the Canadian
Cancer Society is trying to establish a loan
cupboard containing supplies for out-
patients in the county: Some of these
supplies would include air mattresses and
sheep skins to be used by patients in their
homes.
At present, whenever doctors or cancer
patients in the county request supplies, the
Unit must send to the district office in
_ Londdon_€or them,
Money is needed to buy supplies for the
cupboard in Huron County and a raffle will
be held as the first project to raise this
money. Tickets will be sold on an afghan and
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table cloth. The table cloth was made by
Wendy Tremeer, secretary of the Unit who
is in charge of the raffle. She also donated
the wool for the afghan which was made by
Marion MacLean. Elaine Blair printed the
tickets for the raffle.
The tickets are on sale at 50 cents each or
three for $1 from members of the Goderich,
Clinton and Seaforth Branches. In Goderich,
call,. 524-7436._ for.. tickets. They .are also
available at the 'Unit office in Clinton (call''
482-7832) and will be on sale at the fashion
show in Exeter on May 2. The draw will be
made during the show.
Alberta's
death rate
is lower
Researchers remain puzzled why
Alberta's cancer death rate is less than half
the national average, says the director of
Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary.
While national figures show that one in
five Canadians will die of cancer, the rate in
Alberta is one in seven, Dr. Martin Jerry
said Wednesday.
"We're a little lower than the average,"
Jerry said. "We don't know the reason."
There now are 40,000 Albertans
undergoing treatment for cancer, he said.
The number of cancer Cases for each 100,000
people in the population increased to 350 in
19131 from 240 in 1962.